I will be working on this today and trying some additional connection methods. Don't blame me, blame the makers of Flash, who have built in all kinds of new "security" features that I have to bypass as if I am hacking into a server, just to make a connection on the port of my choice. It's ridiculous.

I spoke to a player today that was having similar problems and it turned out that their anti-virus program was preventing them from connecting. I am not sure how or why, but they were able to narrow it down to this and get around it by telling the anti-virus program to accept connections from Triplejack.

I got the same problem with connecting to Tj.... Connecting...Connect (2)...Connecting (3) n then failed.
What i want to say is that i never used to get this problem b4. Only started after the server failed, and since its back online it would not connect 4 some reason.
Also been usin Flash 9, IE6...tried FF2 today but nothin works.
Also tried disabling my Internet security software but still don work.

I have a theory... a theory that I will present here despite its slightly technical nature.

I think that many players on certain networks, specifically at universities, have trouble in general because they are trying to crack down on file sharing that kills bandwidth and is morally questionable. So, they restrict everything but port 80, which is usually reserved for web pages. (File sharing would normally happen on other ports and is therefore easily blocked by the administration) So, port 80 works for many players, except that I think they FURTHER restrict things by checking if the port 80 traffic is really web traffic.

In the past, the game used an HTTP (web) connection to do the initial security check allowing the game to then connect to port 80. Now it is still doing the security check on port 80, but isn't using HTTP. Your network may see the traffic as non-web, even though it is on port 80, and restrict it. This would explain a lot of these problems.

Does any of this ring a bell?
I am working on some changes today that may fix or at least give me more information about this. Please check back here! Thanks!

It COULD be affected by Internet Settings, I suppose. I really don't know. However I know there are some things I can do on my end. If you feel inclined to experiment, please do, but you can also wait until I have more things for you to test.